AnnF
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Hehe, I better hope they're not monitering this thread, right?
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Does anyone recognise the tune the natives are singing? I just realised it's the one from "Gone With The Wind", when someone in the movie is singing "All the darkies in Atlanta"
Fantastic movie!
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Oh my word! It's a great movie, but I'm aghast at what he lead to happen, even though I already knew this couldn't end well. I never dreamed this would be the bad ending, I thought it would it be something more allegorical
I should say, more completely allegorical. It was allegorical, alright, but the terrible event was completely a real event.
I love movies that keep me on my toes, that I can't guess ahead!
Edited by: AnnF on May 30, 2013 11:01 PM -to use more fitting word
Edited by: AnnF on May 30, 2013 11:03 PM
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Aw you had to go there and I know you could tell that I'm a flamin' righty, but I don't care, I'm live-and-let-live about those matters
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Meryl Streep sounded like she wasn't unreservedly uncritical, just that she was holding back or had been edited a bit.
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I'm watching this film "White Hunter, Black Heart" for the first time, and so far I like it. The main character (John Huston?) reminds me of my husband-does what's right in his own eyes, but sounds like the most un-PC person in the world to hear him.
Edit-Never mind, my husband's neither nearly that preachy and self-righteous nor that touchy. I don't like that part of this character.
Edit-Geeze how I insulted my poor husband, this guy's nuts.
Edited by: AnnF on May 30, 2013 10:22 PM
Edited by: AnnF on May 30, 2013 10:32 PM
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Love Clint, as an actor, a film maker, and a person. Happy to learn more about him, amd see some more of his work. Thanks TCM.
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Shorthand for "positive" expectations. IOW, I was indifferent, hadn't given the matter any thought either way, etc. Therefore was pleasantly surprised to find her interesting, articulate, informed, etc, when I didn't have any expectations either way because I hadn't given the matter any thought anyway and was just waiting for the movies to begin. She was lagniappe.
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Loved Illeana Douglas and her choices. I had no expectations either way and was pleasantly surprised. She had interesting, informed, and unexpected things to say about her choices. She did her job, in that I am aware of a film I didn't know about and liked it very much (this version of Alice In Wonderland). She herself was pleasant without taking the focus off of the films she was there to have us give a second (or first) look at. I'm very pleasantly surprised.
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Ned Pepper-"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man"
Rooster Cogburn-"Fill your hands you sonava b*tch"
John Wayne, Glenn Campbell, Kim Darby-True Grit.
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I'd like TCM to show the two Kevin Brownlow series on silent film-"Hollywood:A Celebration Of The American Silent Film" and "Cinema Europe:The Other Hollywood". I have both series but I would love to see them shown for the public and discussed-perhaps round table fashion-by knowledgable people. (The music for both series-composer Carl Davis-is quite memorable and effective).
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Good idea, but most technician types would probably have on-air personalities reminiscent of dishrags.
Perhaps. But I've watched that Kevin Brownlow series on the silent era many times, and the segment about the stuntmen featured Yakima Canutt, Harvey Parry, and other stuntmen from the era, and they were very articulate, interesting, and witty. (It's "Hollywood:A Celebration Of The American Silent Film", a 13-part series. Extremely good. So is the companion series, "Cinema Europe:The Other Hollywood", about Europe's silent film industry-6 segments, IIRC.) -
I believe that it would be interesting to have either a technician type as co-host-one of the "behind the camera" people, one with a long history and experience working in Hollywood. I think someone like that could offer insights as to why certain things create the effects that they do, a desired emotion or atmosphere-because it comes down to more than just the acting. For example, would the dialogue sound the same, would it be as effective and not sound unrealistic or sappy, if the music wasn't helping to create an atmosphere that makes the dialogue "work"?
Or one of the few remaining people from Hollywood's golden era-there can't be many left-who would be in good enough health to do the segments, still mentally sharp, to give us some of the backstories regarding the people involved in the particular film-actors, directors, cameramen, costume designers, etc.
Almost anything would be better than "this film is essential because Cyd Charisse just knocks my socks off". Or "so-and-so is just so incredible"-I'm sick of that word! Incredible, unbelieveable, etc-all overused in place of anything particular to say. It's as if someone's trying to browbeat me into agreeing, instead of giving particular reasons WHY this movie or this actor is special.
Some other woman does the same thing in the segment on Barbara Stanwyck-lots of "incredible", "unbelievable". And that word "humanity"-does it mean anything really, or is it just a word that hopefully makes you sound like you know what you're talking about?
(BTW, Stanwyck's character in "Stella Dallas" wasn't exactly a "have-not". The man she married started over at the bottom and worked his way back up, supporting her and his child all the while. As far as I can tell, Stella never had to work, and had enough money to stay at resorts and buy plenty of "stuff" to dress herself up. That doesn't make her a bad person, but it doesn't make her a "have-not" either. Nor would her supposedly being a "have-not" in itself especialy give her dignity. Seemed to me that she recognised her lack of dignity when she went after the rich guy, and she wanted to correct it at first, but just didn't have the will and endurance and patience. The second wife-sluffed off as "some rich woman" by the narrator in the Stanwyck segment-did indeed have dignity, and kindness. Looking at everything through the PC prism sure makes people draw some strange conclusions.)
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Can't believe I'm saying this, but compared to now, I do miss him. I disagree with him on just about everything in life, including a lot of movie opinions (opinions mind you, he brought a lot knowledge and factual information to "The Essentials" also, which is a different thing). At least I didn't have to listen to him drivel on about how the movie "just makes me feel so joyful" ugh. I liked the give-and-take of his opinions with Mr Osborne, as he could usually back them up with pertinent information.
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I'm with the "negatives" on Ms Barrymore.
First-her voice/manner of speaking. If she had anything insightful or interesting to say, that would negate it for me.
Second-women who are almost 40 still being described as "cute" get on my nerves.
Third-she really doesn't ever offer anything to the conversation, and that isn't even necessarily age dependent. Enthusiasm unallied to any in-depth knowledge whatsoever isn't informative or interesting. I'm a mere well-read fan and could bring more information to the table. She is a celebrity, I give her that. Aren't there any articulate celebrities out there, with just as much enthusiasm but even a tiny bit of knowledge, who would like to co-host? Wouldn't young people appreciate such a person, assuming, which I do, that they were in a "relatable" age bracket, since the general idea seems to be that people only "relate" to people of their own age?
To the poster who mentioned how Ms Barrymore tonight mentioned her discomfort with people "breaking out into song and dance" in musicals-that was just the last straw tonight. No, actually it was Robert Osborne describing her as "deep". All I can say to that is that he's heard her say something completely different than anything I've ever heard her say on "The Essentials", or for some reason she chooses their camera time to hide it.
I could tolerate her as a two- or three-movie guest host who boned up on the movies she chose for her segment (not really-that voice and phrasing!), but she just can't sustain it for anything longer term like "The Essentials". It doesn't tell me a thing about the movie to hear her, segment after segment, talk about how the movie makes her feel, and she's not very articulate in doing even that.
To the poster who said it always sounds as if she's reaching or making it up as she goes along-you hit the nail on the head.
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Gah!: MUST we be subjected to another Clint Eastwood love-a-thon?
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> {quote:title=AddisonDeWitless wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote} The documentary was a Eastwood love a thon- I wish it had been a bit more critical.
> I didn't watch it, so I'll (mostly) keep me yap shut, but I can't say as I'm surprised. Most of these documentaries done by HOLLYWOOD on HOLLYWOOD tend to take that turn down **** Lane at some point- I know I've only now (barely) recovered from the reeeeeeeeeeally pretentious Brando doc that TCM aired a coupla' years ago.
Yeah, Hollywood looks out for its own, especially the icons. I suppose wth Clint Eastwood himself being in the documentary, they couldn't be too objectively critical.